Diem sells more than 50 kilograms a day, earning around VND200,000 (US$9.28).

The peanut vendors are there from morning until late in the evening, supplying to take-away customers and other street vendors who resell to customers waiting for their food in restaurants around the city.

A middle-aged man, who stopped to buy a bag after picking up his children from school, said: “I buy them these nuts to cut them off from sweets.”